For the Sochi 2014 Olympics, the U.S. team will be strutting in something that looks like a cross between a high school varsity letter jacket and a really bad postcard. Thursday, fashion designer Ralph Lauren revealed what America’s athletes will be wearing during the opening ceremony: red-laced boots, a white (cream?) turtleneck, white sweatpants and […] …

Is “thug” the new roundabout way of saying the “n-word?” Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman thinks so. After his post-game rant broke the sound and sensibility barriers, Sherman was lambasted by the public at large. A Kinja blog reported the word “thug” had been uttered 625 times on American television in reference to Sherman’s antics […] …

CrossFitters are rallying behind a Colorado man after he suffered a catastrophic injury during a competition in California over the weekend. CBS Denver reports Kevin Ogar was performing a powerlift snatch when his spine severed and his legs gave out from under him. Now, he’s in the hospital and is facing medical bills. He also […] …

A Little League coach in Lakeside, Calif. is suing one of his own players, accusing him of party rocking a little too hard. Sacramento’s KCRA-TV reports Coach Alan Beck is seeking $500,000 in pain and suffering and $100,000 in legal bills from a 14-year-old’s family. In the court filing, Beck alleges the teen tossed his […] …

Wielding the olive branch of diplomacy and a face that may have been carved from a mountainside, NBC’s Bob Costas basically called the new Olympic sport of slopestyle stupid on the ‘Today’ show. “I think the president of the IOC should be Johnny Knoxville, because basically, this stuff is just ‘Jackass’ stuff that they invented […] …

Hell hath no fury like Dennis Rodman pointing a cigar and yelling at CNN’s Chris Cuomo over North Korea and basketball. The trouble began when Cuomo asked Rodman if he and the NBA team going to North Korea would speak to leader Kim Jong-un about imprisoned American citizen Kenneth Bae. “The one thing about politics, […] …

Tony Picard is 6-foot-4 and weighs 400 pounds. And he’s a running back. In high school. Such a giant football player might typically play a position like defensive tackle, but Picard’s surprising agility and quickness led his coaches at White Swan High School — in a rural area southwest of Yakima, Wash. — to try …

A Harlem Globetrotter almost trotted his way into the next life after an attempted dunk went awry in Honduras. The New York Daily News reports William “Bull” Bullard was trying to do an alley-oop dunk at the Nacional de Ingenieros Coliseum in Tegucigalpa when the hoop toppled over onto him. Bullard suffered a cut over …

The Ohio State marching band is comprised of “win” which is why they’re able to churn out amazing performances like the one they put on for the Buckeye’s game against Iowa on Oct. 19. During halftime, the band did a tribute for the 25th anniversary of Michael Jackson’s “Bad” album, complete with a very unique …

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